I'm now no longer an ex-pat, but heading back to being, I suppose, a regular pat. Also back to being a patsy for the UK clerks – being fined by them for not telling them I’m resting one of my cars does stick in the craw. If I don’t want to use one of my Canadian cars, I just leave it in the driveway and it’s none of the clerks’ business.
However, there are upsides to the controlling nature of the British establishment. The huge number of surveillance cameras, the
